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17 March 2009 2:14 PM, PDT | Kasterborous.com | See recent Kasterborous news »

The incomparable Katy Manning - who as Jo Grant was Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who co-star from 1971-1973 and is the current voice of Iris Wildthyme - is starring as Hollywood legend Bette Davis in Me & Jezebel at the New End Theatre, London, from 14 April to May 2 2009 Me & Jezebel is based on the true story of when Bette Davis invited herself to stay for a night in the New-England house of writer Elizabeth Fuller and didn’t leave for a month. This one-woman show is energetically... »

- Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com

8 March 2009 9:13 AM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »

A devilish Gold Derby reader sends us this hilarious YouTube clip of a pilot for a TV sitcom in 1965 starring Bette Davis that never got aired. It's bravura TV — vintage Bette in shrewdly crafted comedy — but it mysteriously stayed on the shelf despite socko talent behind it that included producer Aaron Spelling ("Charlie's Angels," "Beverly Hills 90210") and writer Mart Crowley ("The Boys in the Band" — a perfect camp fit for Bette, eh? Crowley and Spelling would team up again later to do a TV series for another grand diva, Joan Collins, that turned out to be a huge hit — "Dynasty"). When Bette Davis' TV series didn't sell to the networks, she didn't take the news well. "She was very disappointed that 'The Decorator' didn't go," writes Ed Sikov in "Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis" (Henry Holt Books, 2007). "No, not disappointed — hurt. Very hurt."

Below is just Part 1 of the pilot. »

- tomoneil

2 articles from 2009